Marc and Olga

I think that smoking is disgusting. I actually feel like I'm going to puke if someone that just smoked comes near me. It's not a nice feeling. I'm all for a cigarette that stops burning whenever someone isn't puffing on it. Less smoke to just float around the air and drive me nuts.

The one time I made it the longest without a smoke (6 weeks on the gum) this man came into my work stinking terribly of smoke! I thought "EWWWW I use to smell like THAT?!" It was awful...but apparently not enough to keep me from smoking again...

Quit smoking. Problem solved.

Mind your own business. Problem really solved.

Keep smoking and the problem will solve itself. Sadly.

I'm aware of the consequences. I wish I would have never started. I have tried to quit many times. The last time I used the latest wonder drug Chantix. That didn't work out very well. Chantix is off the market now and believe me I know why. Now I'm driving a Semi again and am prohibited from taking drugs, like Wellbutrin.

Unfortunately they are probably going to kill me. In the meantime the Government needs to keep their nose out of it. Isn't that usually the Conservative point of view?

Dang Chantix is off the market...already?! I have a prescription waiting to be fill when I get around to it...guess I can't now =O

Wellbutrin never worked for me though but I had hope for Chantix...

maybe it was a reference to this?

/shrug

There only good if they are green or organic

quick someone change the title of the thread to "Green Rayovac Organic Hybrid batteries"!

coincidentally, the batteries have green on them...hehe

Better option

more expensive? yes

fewer chemicals? YES

fewer additives? YES

the expensive part prevents me from buying them but they actually will go out if you leave it burning...a friend of mine smokes em!

That's F'ing funny...on a side note I was shopping once not too long ago and found my dream spread, Country Crock made 2 (that I saw) spreads in the tiniest of packages...Cinnamon Sugar and honey! the cinn sugar was heavenly! :wub:

There's also unsubstantiated rumours flying around some secret tape showing Obama's wife using the phrase "whitey" at a church service.

Strangely - Fox has reported this as speculation without any proof of such a tape being forthcoming. That's doesn't seem like good journalism to me... Yet apparently its ok to publish smear stories without doing any fact-checking.

That seems to be journalism these days...

Need to get Boo-Yah around here to try the airplane games brother...kick-a-migrant (Aus)

NOW it makes sense lol

BWAHAHAHA ... uh #######?!

(still laughing over the "lighthouse" gummies

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

21 the first time, 29 the second and for fun I only answered 1 question correct... 2! I was stoopid! "you're no Einstein" and 88% stoopider then the average person...ONLY 88%!!!!

Funny how it's "War on Terror, War in Iraq" in 2005 weren't they still considered the same? Methinks he knew something.

Political activists planning protest rallies at the upcoming Democratic Convention in Denver have their stomachs in knots over a rumor about a crowd control weapon - known as the “####### cannon” - that might be unleashed against them.

Also called “Brown Note,” it is believed to be an infrasound frequency that debilitates a person by making them defecate involuntarily.

Mark Cohen, co-founder of Re-create 68, an alliance of local activists working for the protection of first amendment rights, said he believes this could be deployed at the convention in August to subdue crowds.

“We know this weapon and weapons like it have been used at other large protests before,” he said.

Cohen, who described Brown Note as a “sonic weapon used to disrupt people’s equilibrium,” cited eyewitness accounts of its use during free-trade agreement protests in Miami in 2003.

“I think these weapons were mostly intended for military use and so their use for dealing with innocent protesters seems highly inappropriate,” he said. “The idea that they might be field testing them on people who are doing nothing more than exercising their first amendment rights is disturbing.”

His group is preparing against a possible attack by Brown Note and other crowd-control measures by dispatching street medics at the convention trained in treating injuries in demonstration situations.

“It’s all we can do,” Cohen said.

So is the Brown Note a real threat?

Dr. Roger Schwenke - an expert acoustician who appeared on the Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters” in 2004 to test the phenomenon - told FOXNews.com there is no scientific evidence that proves such frequencies cause involuntary defecation.

“When we conducted the low frequency experiment for the Brown Note episode of MythBusters, we tested a variety of low frequencies and no involuntary gastro-intestinal motility was caused,” he said.

But Schwenke acknowledged the low-frequency exposure did cause an adverse effect. Several people — including himself — reported “abdominal discomfort,” he said, “which was easily alleviated by moving a moderate distance away from the source.”

Adding to the Brown Note rumor is a refusal by Denver’s Mayor John W. Hickenlooper to release details of what was purchased with $18 million of a $50 million federal grant the city received to pay for convention security, despite a lawsuit filed by ACLU.

Cohen’s group is calling on the administration to disclose what measures will be taken.

In a statement released to FOXNews.com, city spokeswoman Sue Cobb said, “commenting on specific security preparations is not helpful to ensuring their effectiveness. I can say, however, that all of our security-related purchases for the Democratic National Convention will comply with federal and City requirements. We are working closely with the U.S. Department of Justice to ensure that the $50 million federal security grant is spent on personnel and equipment in the manner required by the grant.”

Denver’s police Department wouldn’t comment on the tactics that will be used during the convention, but a spokesman said that “we do support and encourage people to express their views safely and in a manner that respects the rights of others along with the laws and ordinances of our city.”

But Glenn Spangnuolo, also with Re-create 68, isn’t taking any chances. He said he has no doubt that Brown Note exists, and is preparing his group for confrontation. “Whether it causes someone to defecate in their pants or not, I don’t know that,” said Spagnuolo. “What I do know is that it causes a person to be disoriented and lose their equilibrium resulting in a nauseous feeling in their stomach.”

More troubling to Spagnuolo is the “Active Denial System” or “ADS,” a ray gun used to send high levels of microwave frequencies that cause a burning sensation the skin.

He described ADS as an “indiscriminate weapon” and said “there’s no long-term testing on what happens to the body when exposed to those kinds of microwave frequencies.”

Spagnuolo believes that Raytheon, the company that manufactures the weapon, is planning to test a limited-range civilian version on protesters in Denver before approving its use in places like Iraq.

Spagnuolo said he believes tactics like these are excessive. “I think spending millions of dollars on weapon technologies to be used on people in our community is completely wrong,” he said.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/10/ac...dem-convention/

This kind of weaponry scares the sh*t out of me!

I saw a show on Science channel (I think) about a sound weapon that "immobilized" people in it's line of fire. The remedy was to remove oneself from the line of fire.

We don't usually around the house but always when we go out...I'll just leave it at that!

There is one about 30 mins. past El Paso TX on I-10

i've run into a fwe on i-10 in tx, nm, and az.

Must have been before Tucson or after Phoenix, cause there isn't one IN Tucson or between Tucson and Phoenix.

Hope you don't have to travel I-10 through Tucson anytime soon, it's a wreck atm though in one way it is better, only through traffic

you're the unicorn deer

it's rumored only a virgin can ride on the back of a unicorn......

I wonder if that includes revirginized women? Maybe the Unicorn could tell the diff - which would then make it very valuable tool for men in deciding who to marry.

probably sell it for millions to some middle east sheik.......

Trade rides for barrels of oil =)

"you choose the woman, one ride, 10 barrels! "

As others have said, AP is not needed for travel within the U.S. However, keep in mind that if you're traveling within the U.S. near the southern border (say, I-10 between California and Texas), you may encounter a border patrol checkpoint and be asked about citizenship. Non-U.S. citizens are required to have their passports to show. These checkpoints are numerous along I-10 and are typically out in the middle of nowhere.

This has happened to us a few times (we live in Arizona) during road trips in AZ, CA, NM, and TX.

I'm not sure about the northern border.

Never knew they had em on I-10, I-19 has a checkpoint but then again I-19 ends in Nogales, AZ near the border =O

AWWWW

I am sensing a change in my account info =O

If anything those things are posted merely as disclaimers to inform people of potential risks - in much the same way that TV ads showing a guy jumping off a cliff have to display "Do Not Attempt", or why a packet of peanuts has to carry the message "Warning: may contain nuts".

WARNING: PEDANT CROSSING

Actually, a peanut is a legume, not a nut. Someone with nut allergies can eat a peanut without issue. The warning comes from the fact that factories where peanuts are packaged may also package nuts, with a risk of cross-contamination. The label seems ridiculous but is actually necessary.

Well discounting the fact that there are peanut allergies (as separate from "nut" allergies)...

Sure. But you gotta be pretty damn stoopid to not know a packet of peanuts may contain peanuts.

the same COULD be said of the "Caution: contents are hot!" printed on the side of a McDonald's coffee cup,

Send the troops back home and let Bush and Cheney finish the war in Iraq after the new president is elected.

Another thing I want to add is a saying a friend of mine knew in Latin, English translation is:

If Catapults were outlawed only outlaws would have catapults, now replace catapult with guns...

The facts as I see them are:

the gun did not load itself

the gun didn't put itself into this womans purse.

the gun didn't put the purse (with the loaded gun in it) near this child.

the gun did not tell the grandmother to not supervise this child near a purse with a loaded gun.

So I am curious why people who think gun laws should be stricter think the gun was at fault in this particular story?

Put the blame where it belongs...

I use to do technical support for Intuit's Small business software (Quickbooks) and we had an order to check things U.D.A.S. The very first thing is USER. (Data, Application, System... for those curious about the others)

I've said it before and I am saying it again, the ketchup in Russia was a heck of a lot tastier then it is here.

I'm going to say our corn subsidies are to blame for that.